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Congratulations for selecting SUSE LINUX. A few clicks are all that is needed to prepare the installation, which takes fifteen to twenty minutes. After configuring the users and their passwords and selecting the screen resolution, your SUSE LINUX system is ready for use. If you are familiar with earlier versions of SUSE LINUX, you will notice how much the configuration with the system assistant YaST has been expanded and simplified.
Get to know the graphical desktop environments KDE and GNOME and learn how to adapt them to your personal preferences. The following sections introduce some very useful and interesting programs from the large range of available applications in different categories, including office programs such as OpenOffice.org, web browsers, programs to manage your schedule, file managers, scanning tools, and image editing programs.
Additionally find information about the SUSE help system and the available information sources containing further documentation. Also included are a list of frequently asked questions about SUSE LINUX.
The following is a list of the changes introduced in this guide, as compared to the previous version (SUSE LINUX 9.1):
The instructions for the installation and configuration with YaST have been moved to the Administration Guide.
The following chapters have been revised:
The chapter about OpenOffice.org now includes a section discussing the migration of MS Office documents to the OpenOffice.org formats.
The chapter about GNOME has been updated to reflect the current version.
The chapters about the KDE desktop, KOrganizer (schedule manager), KAddressbook (contact organizer), KMail, and about synchronizing handhelds with KPilot have been updated to match the current version of KDE.
